Fall is upon us, which means
another Twilight Zone season should
be celebrating its 50th anniversary any time now, right?
Wrong.
The Twilight Zone didn't return for season 4 until
January 1963 and, when it finally did return, it had mutated into a different
show…. but we’ll get to that in January.
For now, we've got four solid months of… well, nothing.
However shall we fill the
time? I did have one idea a few months
back, which spawned the following plan:
In the beginning of this blog, my episode promos were extremely
brief: we’re talking maybe a paragraph or two, with only one or two screen
shots; real basic. The format expanded over time and, by midway through season
one, the format had started filling out nicely (I have made adjustments over
time, however, culminating in the pretty snazzy
alternating-checkerboard-text-and-photo layout that debuted near the end of
season three). Trouble is, some of the
series greatest episodes aired very early on and therefore never got the proper
spotlighting (except for “Walking Distance” and “Time Enough at Last,” both of
which I feel I've sufficiently covered).
It’s always bothered me that I've written more about dogs like “A Most
Unusual Camera” and “Mr. Dingle, the Strong” than favorites like “The Lonely”
and “Perchance to Dream.” Therefore, I think a nice exercise might be to
revisit some of those early episodes and give them the attention they so richly
deserve. Plus, this’ll give me an excuse
to reach back before season one and spotlight Serling’s “The Time Element,”
which aired on Desilu Playhouse in 1958 and is The Twilight Zone’s unofficial
pilot-before-the-real-pilot (I’ll explain when we get to it).
That was my grand idea. But in all
honesty, I just don’t have the time or energy right now (see previous post for
a glimpse at my current circumstances).
I think this is the perfect time to take a few months off. Funny… it’s almost as if some grand design
brought about this opportunity to get my head screwed on straight, right when I
needed it (thank Rod!).
I definitely want to revisit
season one at some point, however… it’ll probably happen in summer 2014 (after
the fifth and final season wraps up).
I’ll probably still pop in once in
a while between now and January: I still need to review the recent Bif Bang
Pow! offerings, plus I want to spotlight the above-mentioned “The Time Element”
(which I would've done before I started on season one, had Image Entertainment
seen fit to make it available earlier!).
But come January, we’re back in full force, baby.
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